This reflection proposes a reading of Ricœur’ s study on «Aesthetic Judgement and Political Judgement according to Hannah Arendt» in the light of the text which immediately precedes it in The Just. The latter reformulates the «political paradox» in order to focus the problematic on the issue which consists for the citizen in discerning «that which engulfs» in «that which is engulfed», i.e. the whole in the part, the political in policy. The meditation on the metaphorical schematism proposed in the second text appears then as an extension of the first. It mobilises broadened thought in the service of the political imagination which revives the meaning of the common good by poetic action. Imagined as a practice of fraternity, the «engulfed» w...